Coming Sunday: Special report on nanotechnology's huge impact on the Capital Region

By definition, nano means extremely small. The effect of nanotechnology descending on the Capital Region, however, has been huge -- literally.

Friday, June 21, 2013

The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at SUNY Albany is a sprawling 800,000-square-foot megaplex of steel and glass. And GlobalFoundries, tucked inconspicuously in the woods of Luther Forest Technology Campus in Saratoga County, will take your breath away as it seems to rise before you. Inside, about 2,000 people work in the 300,000-square-foot cleanroom and 385,000 square feet of office space, while outside, hundreds of construction workers dot the landscape of rising steel and concrete.

Local leaders recognized nanotechnology as the industry of the future, and the region has quickly become a player in a growing, global network of computer chip manufacturing and research.

As you'll discover in the special report, Nano Tech Valley coming out in Sunday's print edition of The Saratogian and The Record in Troy and online at both Saratogian.com and TroyRecord.com, there is nothing nano about what this means to the region's economy, education system and culture.